Agostino Barbarigo (admiral)

Agostino Barbarigo (22 January 1518-9 October 1571) was an Admiral of the Republic of Venice. He commanded the left wing of the Holy League fleet at the Battle of Lepanto, during which he was slain.

Biography
Agostino Barbarigo was born in Venice, Republic of Venice on 22 January 1518 to a father from the House of Barbarigo and a mother from the House of Dandolo, two major Venetian families. From 1554 to 1557, he served as ambassador to France, and he later served as Lieutenant in Friuli and Captain of Padua. In 1570, he was nominated to replace Girolamo Zane as the Admiral of Venice's navy during the war with the Ottoman Empire, and he succeeded the controversial Sebastiano Venier in that post in 1571. At the Battle of Lepanto, he commanded the left wing of the Venetian fleet, and he was mortally wounded by an arrow that struck him in the right eye. He died two days after the battle's end.